As many of you know, Israel and the world has offered the Palestinians plenty of partition plans which were all refused.

There was the 30s with the British offering them some 70% of the land, the famous UN partition plan which was answered by a war of "Annihilation", and more modern offers such as Camp David with the Clinton Parameters following. And of course, Olmert's attempt a few years later very recently in 2006, trying to finally get peace with the Palestinian's new leader Abbas, following Arafat's refusal to a somewhat similar plan a few years earlier and death.

In short, what was the Olmert offer?

Olmert's plan was largely based on the former Clinton Parameters, and included among other things the following:

• Israel would cede almost 94% of the West Bank.
• Israel would retain approximately 6.4% of the West Bank. In return there would be a swap of land (to the Palestinians) from Israel. According to Condoleezza Rice, “Olmert gave Abbas cause to believe that he was willing to reduce that number to 5.8 percent.”
• Sparsely populated settlements would be evacuated, but Gush Etzion, Ma’ale Adumim and Ariel would be annexed by Israel. In exchange, Israel offered to give up area around Afula-Tirat Tzvi, the Lachish region, an area near Har Adar, and areas in the Judean desert and around Gaza equaling 5.8% of Israeli territory.
• Maintain the contiguity of the Palestinian state and create a safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza. “It would have been a tunnel fully controlled by the Palestinians but not under Palestinian sovereignty, otherwise it would have cut the state of Israel in two.”
• Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem would be under Jewish sovereignty, Arab neighborhoods would be under Palestinian sovereignty, so it could be the capital of a Palestinian state.
• No one would have sovereignty in the holy basin in Jerusalem containing sites holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, including the Mount of Olives, the City of David and part of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan. This area “would be jointly administered by five nations, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Palestinian state, Israel and the United States.”
• No “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, but Israel would agree on a humanitarian basis to accept 1,000 refugees every year for five years “on the basis that this would be the end of conflict and the end of claims.” An effort would also be made to establish an international fund to “compensate Palestinians for their suffering.” The agreement would also include recognition of the suffering of Jews from Arab countries who were forced out of their homes after 1948.
• Palestine would have a strong police force, “everything needed for law enforcement.” It would have no army or air force.
  The Palestinian border with Jordan would be patrolled by international forces – possibly from NATO. The Palestinians would not allow any foreign army to enter Palestine, and its government would not be permitted to enter into any military agreement with a country that does not recognize Israel.
• Israel would retain the right to defend itself beyond the borders of a Palestinian state and to pursue terrorists across the border.
• Israel would be allowed access to airspace over Palestine, and the Israel Defense Forces would have rights to disproportionate use of the telecommunications spectrum.

All in all, any reasonable 2 state solution supporting person would think this is great, and provides the Palestinians a real opportunity to demonstrate to the world their intentions are peaceful, and finally for the first time in history have a state, with Jerusalem as it's capital. As an Israeli this is the kind of solution I was personally supporting pretty much all my life, up until Oct 7.

Abbas's refusal of peace – The Palestinian excuse

The Palestinians getting yet another extremely positive good faith offer, seems to have created some sort of cognitive dissonance among Pro-Palestinians. Most of which have swallowed the narrative about the evil colonizer Israelis who only want war and more land (Despite factually giving up more land than Israel's entire land mass for peace with Egypt), while oppressing the nothing but peace-loving poor Palestinians. Who sure, might lash out in time to time, but they are SO justified (In raping, murdering, kidnapping, torturing, and refusing peace) due to Israel's actions.

And thus, just like in regards to Arafat destroying peace instead of accepting the Clinton Parameters before, the excuses begin.

One of the main reasons quoted by Abbas himself and when discussing with Pro-Palestinians, is that "Abbas was not allowed to study the maps" and thus could not accept it.

This lie has been reported widely across plenty of media such as TimesofIsrael

PA president says he declined proposal — which included near-total withdrawal from West Bank and relinquishing Israeli control of Jerusalem’s Old City — because he wasn’t allowed to study map

I24News

Abbas said. “He told me, ‘This is the map’ and took it away. I respected his point of view, but how can I sign on something that I didn’t receive?”

And of course, this excuse also repeated an endless amount of times when discussing with Pro-Palestinians, who hold as hard as they can to Abbas's excuse in an attempt to solve the internal paradox of supporting those who said no to peace, and yes to a genocidal war one time after the next. Yet consider themselves as the good guys in this story.

Recent interview debunking it

Recently, a streamer named Destiny, who has been conducting plenty of debates and studying the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the past ~6 months, has travelled to Israel and conducted plenty of interviews with many key players of the different peace negotiations in the past.

While the full interview is not out, Destiny shared in Twitter a part of an interview with Olmert himself, debunking this specific Palestinians excuse to their refusal of peace. Here is the clip, you can watch it yourself.

According to Olmert, this excuse by Abbas is nothing but nonsense. As he told him specifically that they can have a meeting tomorrow with both sides experts regarding the map, and look at it together. A meeting was set, but of course, they got a phone call later by the Palestinians saying they cannot make it.

Seems like Arafat has taught his student well, as Arafat employed very similar tactics in order to derail both the Camp David and the Clinton Parameters just a few years before that.

So that is it. Now my message to all Pro-Palestinians who are sane enough to support a two state solution and not the destruction of Israel (Which to you I have nothing to say, it's good to have dreams in life I suppose, maybe less genocidal ones would be better), what is your excuse now? Is Olmert lying while Abbas the holocaust denier is telling the truth? I expect to see such excuses and under no illusion that this will change anyone's opinion.

TL/DR:

A popular Pro-Palestinian claim is that peace and a two state solution was not implemented following Olmert's proposal to Abbas is because Abbas "Was not allowed to study the maps and was expected to say yes without it". In a recent interview, Olmert debunked this and claims the Palestinians excused out of the meet that will allow the Palestinians to study the maps, seemingly intentionally missing yet another chance for peace.